Where librarians and the internet meet: internet searching, Social Media tools, search engines and their development. These are my personal views.

February 25, 2012

I think the idea is that www.sperse.com is supposed to read as 'sparse' given that it provides a very cut down set of results. It's a multi search engine, across Google, Yahoo and Bing, and it can also pull data from Twitter as well. Users can search web, news, video, jobs, images, blogs and some file formats.

February 07, 2012

Ever needed to search in a foreign language? If you don't know the language, it can be a bit of a pain to get a translation, then search. Well, 2lingual Google Search takes the pain away. Simply choose the language that you want to search in, and it takes care of the rest.

It's not just doing a simple translation job though - having searched for CILIP in English and German it appears to be using the German version of Google to run the search, since the results are very different indeed.

See recent tweets between twitter users! Welcome to Tweets Between which is a twitter tool that allows you to see the most recent conversations between two users of your choice! How to use: Simply, enter the two twitter usernames of the people who held the conversation that you would like to read in the text boxes below, then press the "GO!" button! Note: You will ONLY see the MOST RECENT tweets between two users!

February 01, 2012

Need CC images, text, audio or sounds? Try the Search.Creativecommons engine It says of itself: "Please note that search.creativecommons.org is not a search engine, but rather offers convenient access to search services provided by other independent organizations. CC has no control over the results that are returned. Do not assume that the results displayed in this search portal are under a CC license. You should always verify that the work is actually under a CC license by following the link. Since there is no registration to use a CC license, CC has no way to determine what has and hasn't been placed under the terms of a CC license. If you are in doubt you should contact the copyright holder directly, or try to contact the site where you found the content."